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On the recordOctober 5, 2021
I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Feinstein) is necessarily absent. The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 20, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 405 Ex.] YEAS--79 Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Booker Boozman Brown Burr Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cramer Crapo Duckworth Durbin Fischer Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagerty Hassan Heinrich Hickenlooper Hirono Hoeven Inhofe Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Leahy Lujan Manchin Markey McConnell Menendez Merkley Moran Murkowski Murphy Murray Ossoff Padilla Peters Portman Reed Risch Romney Rosen Rounds Sanders Sasse Schatz Schumer Scott (SC) Shaheen Sinema Smith Stabenow Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Van Hollen Warner Warnock Warren Whitehouse Wicker Wyden Young NAYS--20 Blackburn Braun Cassidy Cotton Cruz Daines Ernst Hawley Hyde-Smith Johnson Kennedy Lankford Lee Lummis Marshall Paul Rubio Scott (FL) Shelby Tuberville NOT VOTING--1 Feinstein The nomination was confirmed. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action. ____________________
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Oct 5, 2021

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